When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most.
They think I make God angry. I hate that they think this. I hate them for thinking it. Why would you decide to worship an angry God anyway?
If it makes God so freaking mad, why does it feel so good?
It’s not about how many hats you wear, it’s all about the shoes.
Give me grace to be holy, kind, gentle, pure, peaceable, to live for Thee and not for self, to copy Thy words, acts, spirit, to be transformed into Thy likeness, to be consecrated wholly to Thee, to live entirely to Thy glory.
Keep your words soft, sweet, and digestible, because one day you might have to eat them.
Sometimes I want to slap some of the characters with their own book.
The main thing I need to know about God is I’m not.
188 Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. 189 But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. 190.
According to this doctrine, however, the Buddha was never merely an individual human being but, like St. John’s Word or Logos, an eternal principle temporarily made flesh.
Some offer their out-flowing breath into the breath that flows in; and the in-flowing breath into the breath that flows out; they aim at Pranayama, breath-harmony, and the flow of their breath is in peace.
103 One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield. 104–105 Be victorious over yourself and not over others. When you attain victory over yourself, not even the gods can turn it into defeat. 106.
How can the spoon know the taste of soup?
The whole day was like that. I wish I could do it justice as I’m writing about it. I feel like I could use all of the words that I have in my head 100 times each and never be able to tell exactly what it was like.
I feel like he’s the ocean and I’ve fallen in and the waves are too big; like I’m in over my head. I’m not even sure which way is up anymore.
And now I’m different. Probably because I’m making the decision to do what I want. I never realized how much I let everyone else decide what I’m going to do.
The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.
A seed does not contribute much materially to the plant it grows into; the material comes from the soil, sunlight, water, and air. What the seed contributes is information. It has the same DNA as every other living entity, but when its genes begin to be expressed, it pulls from the environment what is needed to make a plant of just a particular kind.
Don’t be so proud of the things you have. Allah gives and if he wants he can take them away.
Normal people are just freaks who are afraid to be themselves in public.